Missed PTX signs on CXR
Chest x-rays often miss pneumothoraces in the trauma room. These are occult pneumothoraces. A study using agreement by two fellowship […]
All Updates, Resus, Trauma
Ultrasound
All Updates, Ultrasound
Great Ultrasound site
I recently had the pleasure of talking to some of the folks from the Henepin County Medical Centre Department of […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Ultrasound
ED US for DVT
Made a radiologist go red with rage recently? If not, you could try showing them this paper1 in this month’s […]
All Updates, Kids, Resus, Ultrasound
Aorta/IVC ratio and dehydration
Two studies this month report a correlation between ultrasound detected aorta/IVC ratio and dehydration in children presenting with diarrhoea and/or […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus, Ultrasound
The Heart Point Sign
A case report describes the echo findings of a patient with a traumatic left sided pneumothorax. Although the subcostal view […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus, Ultrasound
Novel subclavian cannulation method
Ultrasound-guided subclavian vein cannulation has reduced complications, but there is still a high incidence of failure to cannulate the vein […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus, Trauma, Ultrasound
Ultrasound measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter
Here’s the abstract from a new study contributing the literature on ED assessment of raised intracranial pressure using ocular ultrasound: […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Ultrasound
Small bowel obstruction
When assessed against CT as gold standard, ultrasound diagnosis of small bowel obstruction by emergency physicians compared favourably with abdominal […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus, Trauma, Ultrasound
Echo in life support feasible
Emergency physicians in Cambridge and Ipswich in the UK prospectively documented their echo use in cardiac arrest. Images were easily […]
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Another pneumoperitoneum
This Video from Academic Emergency Medicine shows distinct hyperechoic foci with reverberation artifacts visualised within free fluid, suggesting associated free […]